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trudge

 (trŭj)
intr.v. trudged, trudg·ing, trudg·es
To walk in a laborious, heavy-footed way; plod.
n.
A long, tedious walk.

[Origin unknown.]

trudg′er n.
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trudge

(trʌdʒ)
vb
1. (intr) to walk or plod heavily or wearily
2. (tr) to pass through or over by trudging
n
a long tiring walk
[C16: of obscure origin]
ˈtrudger n
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trudge

(trʌdʒ)

v. trudged, trudg•ing,
n. v.i.
1. to walk, esp. laboriously or wearily.
v.t.
2. to walk laboriously or wearily along or over.
n.
3. a laborious or tiring walk; tramp.
[1540–50; perhaps b. tread and drudge]
trudg′er, n.
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trudge


Past participle: trudged
Gerund: trudging

Imperative
trudge
trudge
Present
I trudge
you trudge
he/she/it trudges
we trudge
you trudge
they trudge
Preterite
I trudged
you trudged
he/she/it trudged
we trudged
you trudged
they trudged
Present Continuous
I am trudging
you are trudging
he/she/it is trudging
we are trudging
you are trudging
they are trudging
Present Perfect
I have trudged
you have trudged
he/she/it has trudged
we have trudged
you have trudged
they have trudged
Past Continuous
I was trudging
you were trudging
he/she/it was trudging
we were trudging
you were trudging
they were trudging
Past Perfect
I had trudged
you had trudged
he/she/it had trudged
we had trudged
you had trudged
they had trudged
Future
I will trudge
you will trudge
he/she/it will trudge
we will trudge
you will trudge
they will trudge
Future Perfect
I will have trudged
you will have trudged
he/she/it will have trudged
we will have trudged
you will have trudged
they will have trudged
Future Continuous
I will be trudging
you will be trudging
he/she/it will be trudging
we will be trudging
you will be trudging
they will be trudging
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been trudging
you have been trudging
he/she/it has been trudging
we have been trudging
you have been trudging
they have been trudging
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been trudging
you will have been trudging
he/she/it will have been trudging
we will have been trudging
you will have been trudging
they will have been trudging
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been trudging
you had been trudging
he/she/it had been trudging
we had been trudging
you had been trudging
they had been trudging
Conditional
I would trudge
you would trudge
he/she/it would trudge
we would trudge
you would trudge
they would trudge
Past Conditional
I would have trudged
you would have trudged
he/she/it would have trudged
we would have trudged
you would have trudged
they would have trudged
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.trudge - a long difficult walktrudge - a long difficult walk    
hike, hiking, tramp - a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time"
Verb1.trudge - walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mudtrudge - walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
walk - use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet"
squish, slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch - walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow"
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trudge

verb
1. plod, trek, tramp, traipse (informal), march, stump, hike, clump, lumber, slog, drag yourself, yomp, walk heavily, footslog We had to trudge up the track back to the station.
noun
1. tramp, march, haul, trek, hike, slog, traipse (informal), yomp, footslog We were reluctant to start the long trudge home.
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trudge

verb
To walk heavily, slowly, and with difficulty:
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مَشْي بِتَثاقُليَمْشي بِتَثاقُل
plahočeníplahočit se
trasketrasketurvadevadetur
cammoghosszú és fárasztó gyaloglás
òaî aî ganga òungum skrefumòramma
kėblinimas
nogurdinošs ceļšslātvilkšanāsvilkties
namáhavo ísť
zorlukla/yorgun argın yürümezorlukla/yorgun argın yürümek

trudge

[trʌdʒ]
A. Ncaminata f (difícil, larga, penosa)
B. VTrecorrer a pie (penosamente)
we trudged the streets looking for himnos cansamos buscándole por las calles
C. VI to trudge up/down/alongsubir/bajar/caminar penosamente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

trudge

[ˈtrʌdʒ] vimarcher péniblement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

trudge

vi to trudge in/out/along etchinein-/hinaus-/entlangtrotten etc; to trudge through the muddurch den Matsch stapfen; we trudged (a)round the shopswir sind durch die Geschäfte getrottet or gelatscht (inf)
vt streets, towntrotten durch; (looking for sth) → abklappern
nmühseliger Marsch
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

trudge

[trʌdʒ] vi to trudge up/down/alongtrascinarsi pesantemente su/giù/lungo
to trudge round the town → girare la città in lungo e in largo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

trudge

(tradʒ) verb
to walk with slow, tired steps. He trudged wearily up the hill.arrastrarse, arrastrar los pies, caminar con dificultad
noun
such a walk or way of walking. caminata lenta/dificultosa, paso cansado
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References in classic literature ?
Directly they were in a mass of dust-covered troops, and were trudging along in a way parallel to the enemy's lines as these had been defined by the previous turmoil.
Their Digger proved an excellent guide, trudging cheerily in the advance.
He would see mothers from English farms trudging along with their infants in their arms, when the child would be stricken with fever and would die; the mother would pause to dig a hole in the loose earth with her bare hands, would bury the babe therein with the same natural grave-tools, shed one tear, and again trudge on.
"Come, you've done enough trudging about in the heat," Sergey Ivanovitch would say to him.
What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easygoing, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been his pipe.
I would see one of the clumsy bovine-creatures who worked the launch treading heavily through the undergrowth, and find myself asking, trying hard to recall, how he differed from some really human yokel trudging home from his mechanical labours; or I would meet the Fox-bear woman's vulpine, shifty face, strangely human in its speculative cunning, and even imagine I had met it before in some city byway.
Summary: Shahdol (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 25 (ANI): An elderly woman was seen trudging outside the office of Inspector General here on Thursday with an urn of his son's ashes in her hands.
I trudged up, and hastened down, and it was on one of the trudging highs that I felt the distinct discomfort of little pebbles in my shoe.
No, this week I'm going to talk to you about my new fitness regime - which is called Trudging Around In A Lot Of Mud.
Tess kept on trudging. At 1/2 mile, Henry got hungry and left the track to find lettuce and carrots for lunch at a farm nearby.
Antonio Luna running half the length of the field at The Emirates enduring will be to put us 3-1 up, when I thought he'd really cracked it and we were back, then the players trudging off after losing 2-1 to Sheffield nited last January, when I realised Lambert's Villa would probably never live up to expectations.
It makes sense really when you are going to be trudging around in mud.